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N0. 6|6,296. Patented Dec. 20, I898. C. B. & L. B. DENNIS.

TA 8 L 5. A lication filed Aug. 11, 1898.)

(No Model.)

- Attorney? Witnesses.

NITE STATES CHARLES I3. DENNIS AND LLOYD B. DENNIS, OF FINDLAY, OI-IIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,296, dated December20, 1898.

Application filed August 11, 1898. Serial No. 688,389. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. DENNIS and LLOYD B. DENNIS, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Findlay, in the county of Hancock andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tables, and particularly to a table adaptedfor general use and to be adjusted so'as to extend over abed, lounge, orother place holding an invalid or sick person.

The object of the invention is to provide a.

table having certain of its legs capable of being swung laterally toform an opening, clearance, or space between the top and bottom ofv thetable to permit the latter being applied to an object holding an invalidor other person.

Other objects and advantages accruing from the special construction andarrangement of parts of the table will be revealed in the specificationand claims to follow.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure lis a perspective view with the table applied to a bed, the latter beingpartly broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the table with theswinging legs folded and shown in dotted lines unfolded. Fig. 3 is asection on the line 90 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of amodified form of legs.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the severalfigures of the drawings.

The table-top 1 has end cross-braces 2 and side pieces 3 secured to theunder side of the table-top, and the bottom or base 4 of the table hasside pieces 5 secured thereto.

The legs 6 are fixed to the bottom and top of the table through the topand bottom side pieces 3 and 5 and the leg-arms 7 and 8.

The movable or lateral swinging legs 9 have a top piece 10 and a likebottom piece 11 with arms 12 secured to said pieces, and these legs areconnected to the fixed legs by hinges 13. All the legs are semicircular,and when the swinging legs are folded back upon the fixed legs there isleft an interval or space between similar table with legs 15 secureddirectly to the table top andbottom, thus dispensing with the sidepieces, and the swinging legs 16 are hinged directly to the fixed legswithout side pieces.

In both forms of table there are hooks and eyes 17 and 18, respectively,orsimilar equivalent means for holding the swinging legs either foldedor unfolded.

Ye do not wish to limit ourselves to any particular size, shape, ormaterial nor to any special means for connecting the legs together' sothat certain of them will swing.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a table, the combination of the fixed legs, and the swinging legsconnected to the fixed legs at the sides of the table independent ofeach other, and adapted to be folded separately upon the fixed legs, asset forth.

2. A table comprising a suitable top and bottom, legs fixed thereto, theswinging legs, and the hinges connecting the swinging with the fixedlegs, so that the former may be fold ed to the sides of the table, uponthe latter.

3. The combination in a table, of the fixed legs, the swinging legs,hinges connecting the two sets of legs together, and means to hold theswinging legs either in folded or unfolded position.

4. The combination, with the table top and bottom, of the fixed legshaving arms secured to the table top and bottom, swinging legs hinged tothe fixed legs and having arms, and the hooks and eyes for holding theswinging legs in either folded or unfolded position.

In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES E. DENNIS. LLOYD B. DENNIS.

lVitnesses:

(has. 13. DENNIS, J12, J. M. HARR.

